Stone Says Hillary Beatable, Gore Could Be Tough

Republican consultant Roger Stone, who has been helping to beat up on Eliot Spitzer for his fund-raising, has added his two cents on Hillary Clinton, saying she is simply too polarizing a figure to win the presidency.But Stone also hints that Barack Obama and Al Gore could be formidable, especially given as the conservative NewsMax puts it, the “sorry state” of the GOP.He sees Fred Thompson as a serious contender for the GOP nomination.

Interestingly, Stone’s comments come as another well-known conservative fund-raiser, Richard Viguerie ripped into the Tennessee Senator for supporting the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reforms and his supposed failure to help vigorously investigate Bill Clinton’s fundraising. Viguerie, who was a pioneer of direct mail (that’s a communication technique that was popular in those stone-age days before e-mail, like the 1980s) concludes the Thompson is a “Rockefeller” Republican.